GO TO SOURCE STAFFORDSHIRE, U.K, March 27, 2001: Perween Warsi’s S&A Foods curry firm, which began in its owner’s kitchen, now employs 1,000 people. S&A Foods will open a new factory in Staffordshire with the aid of a government grant. The company sells US$112 million chilled and frozen ready-meals through the supermarket chains Safeway, Morrisons and Waitrose. Curry is fast…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, March 24, 2001: Everybody is doing it, or everybody wants to do it. From ashtanga to hatha, yoga classes are popping up to accommodate modern successful people. In the past 18 months, the yoga craze has evolved and melted into the life of a Londoner. Quoting Cat de Rham who teaches Iyengar-based classes in Chelsea,…
Source: The Guardian UNITED KINGDOM, March 7, 2001: Ruling that the advertisement caused a personal offense to their culture and religion, the Independent Television Commission has banned a recent advertsements promoting Chicken Tonight. It showed a Hindu woman meditating and chanting in front of a chicken. She became upset with the chicken for not joining her. Hindus were offended by…
GO TO SOURCE LEICESTER, U.K., March 18, 2001: The focal point of the Leicester’s Asian community is Belgrave Road known as the Golden Mile because more gold jewellery is sold here than anywhere else in Europe. The road’s display of 6,000 lights during Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights is said to be the biggest outside India. The city’s major…
GO TO SOURCE BOSTON, MASSACHUCETTS, March 25, 2001: Twenty-six first-graders from St. Catherine of Genoa School in Somerville file into the basement chapel of the Roman Catholic church. But Hriday Chawla isn’t thinking about Jesus Christ. He’s speaking to Ganesh, the Hindu God. Classmate Rupinder Kaur, a girl with long dark hair, worships the Sikh Waheguru. Roughly 25 percent of…
GO TO SOURCE COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, March 26, 2001: Sri Lankan Buddhists say they will build replicas of two ancient Buddha statues destroyed earlier this month by Afghanistan’s Taleban rulers. The private Maha Bodhi Society said it was hoping to receive public donations to create the replicas of the giant statues carved from a cliff face in central Bamiyan. The…
GO TO SOURCE JHARKLAND, INDIA, March 22, 2001: Villagers in the state have appealed to the government to help them in controlling the threat wild elephants are imposing on their lives. Terrified of the pachyderms, most villages now offer prayers to Lord Ganesh and keep night-time vigils. Apparently the problem escalates when baby elephants wander into the villages and their…
GO TO SOURCE LUCKNOW, INDIA, March 23, 2001: The sectarian riots and violence in Uttar Pradesh’s largest industrial town in Kanpur, sparked off by the alleged burning of pages of the Koran in Delhi by Hindu activists, claimed 16 lives last week. The police opened fire to control the rioters and some persons in the mob retaliated by firing AK47…
GO TO SOURCE The Hindu Council of Australia called off its protest march against an Australian labor union accused of desecrating the famous Sri Venkateswara Temple. The Council withdrew its call following an apology by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU). A CFMEU team visited the temple and removed eight stonemasons, alleging gross underpayment and unsafe living conditions.…
GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, March 15, 2001: India has become the back office for many American companies. So expounds this article that illustrates that Indian Companies such as Customer Asset groom their employees to familiarize them with American culture and give them a fictitious identity. Providing services to companies such as General Electric and British Airways, they then field…